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A blog post analyzes the M/M/c queueing model and shows that increasing the number of servers in a load-balanced system improves latency at constant per-server load, a beneficial and somewhat counterintuitive result for cloud economics.
Gleam language creator Louie deeply explains the core concepts of OTP, and how Gleam works with OTP in a type-safe manner, achieving fully compatible inter-process communication and supervisor building blocks with Erlang/Elixir.
EZRA is a lightweight, persistent task queue built on Erlang/OTP with SQLite storage. It exposes a Redis-compatible interface, allowing any Redis client to push and pop tasks without needing a Redis server.
Erlang/OTP 29.0 is a major release introducing native records, multi-valued comprehensions, improved compiler warnings, and enhanced security defaults like disabled SSH daemons. It also includes JIT improvements and experimental features like post-quantum cryptography support.
This technical article explains how to use Erlang's :counters and :atomics modules for high-performance counting and shared mutable state outside the standard process isolation model. It covers atomic operations like add_get, exchange, and compare-and-swap within the BEAM runtime.
A developer shares their GitHub Actions setup for testing a Gleam monorepo with separate BEAM and JavaScript runtimes, using matrix strategies and strict formatting checks.